Sagaris

thumb|Scythian archer holding a sagaris, as depicted by the vase-painter Euphronios on an Attic red-figure [[neck amphora (510–500 BC, Louvre)]]

The sagaris () is an ancient shafted weapon used by the horse-riding ancient Saka and Scythian peoples of the great Eurasian steppe. It was used also by Western and Central Asian peoples: the Medes, Persians, Parthians, Indo-Saka, Kushans, Mossynoeci, and others living within the milieu of Iranian peoples. Sagaris is also the etymological origin of the Slavic word for "axe". According to Aristarchus of Samothrace, the legendary Amazons used the sagaris, as well. In The Histories, Herodotus attributes the sagaris to the Sacae Scythians in the army-list of Xerxes the Great.